A lot of projects are little more than crud with a few complicated business rules. Use a framework with a good caching layer, and a lot of the time the employer is very happy with the outcome. It’s cheap to build, maintain, and host.
But then along comes a developer who says “we must build this app with async so we can scale”. Suddenly the junior devs build an absolute mess because they don’t know how to work effectively with async. So a few seniors get involved. Then the project runs out of cash.
Sure, some projects benefit from async and some fundamentally require it. But not all of them, I doubt even the vast majority of them.
You only need to scale when you’re successful, and most applications are not successful.
But then along comes a developer who says “we must build this app with async so we can scale”. Suddenly the junior devs build an absolute mess because they don’t know how to work effectively with async. So a few seniors get involved. Then the project runs out of cash.
Sure, some projects benefit from async and some fundamentally require it. But not all of them, I doubt even the vast majority of them.
You only need to scale when you’re successful, and most applications are not successful.